Thursday, January 19, 2012

Juniors are capable of so much progress in chess! In recognition of their efforts, I have assigned players to "clubs". Each club is based on a certain amount of rating increase in both CFC (and/or FQE) and CMA in the year 2011. CFC and FQE ratings are based on regular (slow) games. Those mentioned have also met the criteria of being in the top fifty lists for the CFC/FQE/CMA and have recent participation in a CFC or FQE event (since September). Even the "100 club" is a huge achievement, so keep up the good work!

In bold are the names of players who were in the “Top 12” last year. This year’s progress is a very significant achievement for them since they have made great strides two years in a row. Congrats!

Note: Rating increase is not the only factor considered in the selection & ordering of the “Top 12” finalists. The finalists are named in my previous post, and their award order will be announced soon.

EH 100 club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

Kaixin Wang

3

AB

+ 624

N/A

+ 105

Kaining Lin

3

AB

+ 382

N/A

+ 101

Frank Wang

3

ON

+ 658

N/A

+ 119

Hou Han Zhang

4

QC

N/A

+ 162

+ 141

Varun Sekar

4

ON

+ 127

N/A

+ 265

Jiaxin (Dora) Liu

5

ON

+ 184

N/A

+ 119

Dennis Shamroni

5

ON

+ 215

N/A

+ 113

Ananda Saha

5

QC

N/A

+ 143

+ 435

Jingzhi (Edwin) Xu

5

BC

+ 220

N/A

+ 144

Terrence (Terry) Ju

5

ON

+ 216

N/A

+ 146

Jason Cao

6

BC

+ 132

N/A

+ 297

Matthew Zita

6

AB

+ 126

N/A

+ 740

Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte

7

QC

+ 396

+ 101

+ 140

Yu Qing Liu

7

QC

N/A

+ 117

+ 169

Lakes Liang

7

ON

+ 257

N/A

+ 119

Sheng-Ming Gu

8

QC

N/A

+ 113

+ 139

Cedric Lepine

9

QC

N/A

+ 143

+ 286

James Fu

9

ON

+ 161

N/A

+ 112

Yimang Yang

9

ON

+ 144

N/A

+ 221

Aquino Inigo

11

ON

+ 121

N/A

+ 242

David Itkin

11

ON

+ 105

N/A

+ 259

EH 150 club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

Harmony Zhu

1

BC

+ 156

N/A

+ 274

Rohan (Shiyam) Talukdar

3

ON

+ 160

N/A

+ 481

Patrick Angelo Tolentino

4

AB

+ 164

N/A

+ 194

Matthew Geng

4

BC

+ 196

N/A

+ 217

Yuanchen Zhang

5

ON

+ 191

N/A

+ 264

Jeffrey Xu

5

ON

+ 259

N/A

+ 177

Matthieu Johnson-Constantin

5

QC

N/A

+ 170

+ 260

Razvan Preotu

7

ON

+ 180

N/A

+ 570

John Doknjas

7

BC

+ 160

N/A

+ 272

Melissa Giblon

7

ON

+ 180

N/A

+ 218

Chang Yun

8

QC

+ 315

+ 159

+ 174

Qun Tian Xiang

9

QC

N/A

+ 165

+ 182

Michael Gomes

9

ON

+ 177

N/A

+ 184

EH 200 club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

David Yao

4

AB

+ 559

N/A

+ 240

Varshini Paraparan

4

ON

+ 203

N/A

+ 568

Yue Tong (Davy) Zhao

4

ON

+ 252

N/A

+ 208

Richard Chen

5

ON

+ 546

N/A

+ 222

Jackie Peng

8

ON

+ 241

N/A

+ 412

Dragos (Octavian) Manailoiu

8

QC

N/A

+ 372

+ 205

Emile Trottier

12

QC

+ 305

+ 248

+ 389

David Miller

12

AB

+ 205

N/A

+ 513

EH 250 club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

Sergey Noritsyn

3

ON

+ 252

N/A

+ 750

Luke Pulfer

3

BC

+ 289

N/A

+ 337

Kevin Yi-Xiao Yie

4

ON

+ 270

N/A

+ 259

Dinny Wang

5

ON

+ 424

N/A

+ 262

Constance Wang

5

ON

+ 264

N/A

+ 347

Michael Chang

7

QC

N/A

+282

+ 296

Mathew Herdin

8

BC

+ 256

N/A

+ 496

Ryan Lo

9

BC

+ 250

N/A

+ 300

Owen Qian

9

ON

+ 253

N/A

+ 315

Nicolas Robichaud

9

NB

+ 254

N/A

+ 300

Krishneel Singh

10

AB

+ 300

N/A

+ 258

EH 300 club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux

2

QC

N/A

+ 311

+ 719

Immanuel Huang

4

ON

+ 300

N/A

+ 325

Qiyu Zhou

6

ON

+ 334

N/A

+ 422

Nikola Isaev

11

QC

N/A

+ 520

+ 306

EH 350+ club

Name

Grade

Province

CFC Rating

FQE Rating

CMA Rating

Jia Yu Luo

3

QC

N/A

+ 350

+ 462

Eric Zechen Wang

6

ON

+ 421

N/A

+ 371

Zong Yang Yu

7

QC

N/A

+ 542

+ 463

Nicholas Lee

7

AB

+ 373

N/A

+ 355

Further Honourable Mentions Taylor Zhang (ON, Grade 3) and Benjamin Lin (ON, Grade 2) would have been in the “EH 200 Club”

Friends/family - please consider making a donation to the Elaine Howie Fund in place of gifts you would otherwise give me. Even $5 or $10 helps ensure children are recognized for their efforts. All donated money is paid out to recipients. I provide the additional certificates/prizes/miscellaneous expenses as my own contribution.